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tracy_loo_whoToday I went to the HP7 press screening in London thanks to @kakapojayne, and fkdlsjflaskd IT WAS AMAZING.
I thought HP7 part 1 was... alright. Time well spent, but it wasn't a movie I really felt like watching twice. I will definitely be watching part 2 again as soon as it gets released. SO GOOD. Although perhaps it helped that I haven't read book 7 since it first came out and don't really remember most of the details, so if the movie got them wrong I didn't notice. TBH I don't really care how closely it followed the book, it was SO GOOD.
Also hilarious. Harry's first line of the movie was something like, "I need to talk to the Goblin." Which is not actually hilarious at all unless you're me.
Then within minutes he's fingering Draco's wand and being told by Ollivander that it basically belongs to him now, and my old H/D shipper heart kind of did somersaults. I did think the movie needed more Draco, but the Draco moments it had were all superb so I'm not really complaining. He and Harry had a pretty epic eyefucking session in the Room of Requirement when Harry asked him about why he didn't rat them out when they'd been captured at Malfoy Manor, and then there was the whole thing with Harry being unable to leave Draco to DIAF and Draco reaching out to Harry 'cause he knew Harry would save him and Harry saving him and the two of them RIDING A BROOMSTICK TOGETHER. I mean, that part of the book I do remember so it was no surprise there, but seeing Harry and Draco on a broomstick together on a giant screen in 3D was pretty much the highlight of the movie for me. XD But didn't Draco try to save Goyle from the fire at one point? I seem to recall that, but it didn't happen in the movie. Oh well. BROOMSTICK. HE WAS PRACTICALLY ON TOP OF HARRY. There are going to be so many icons of this.
Anyway, I'd told myself I wouldn't get all ridiculous and emotional about this being the last movie since I haven't even been in HP fandom the past few years, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't get fucking misty-eyed like every ten freaking minutes. EVERYTHING got to me. McGonagall leading all the Hogwarts professors in their valiant defense of Hogwarts, the castle getting destroyed, Fred and Remus dying, Neville's speech after everyone thought Harry was dead, Narcissa and Draco holding hands and walking calmly away from the fighting in the end with Lucius making a conscious decision to run after them, Snape dying--
Oh my god, Snape. Alan Rickman is the most amazing thing to ever happen to these movies. SO MANY awesome Snape moments, from the first shot of him standing in the castle to threatening all the students in the school against helping Harry to all the scenes in his memories which I never wanted to end and could've watched for hours (young!Snape was pretty adorable btw) to his death scene. The Snarry shippers will love that scene, I think; Harry does hold his jaw/cheek quite tenderly as he's bleeding out, and Snape crying out his memories is kind of priceless. XD His last "look at me" 'cause he wanted to see Lily's eyes one last time broke my heart, though.
Other favorite moments:
FKLSKDJLFSK this movie is just awesome all around, totally made up for the fact that I apparently just missed Tom Felton walking down the red carpet when I was trying to sneak around the premiere the other night. :P
I thought HP7 part 1 was... alright. Time well spent, but it wasn't a movie I really felt like watching twice. I will definitely be watching part 2 again as soon as it gets released. SO GOOD. Although perhaps it helped that I haven't read book 7 since it first came out and don't really remember most of the details, so if the movie got them wrong I didn't notice. TBH I don't really care how closely it followed the book, it was SO GOOD.
Also hilarious. Harry's first line of the movie was something like, "I need to talk to the Goblin." Which is not actually hilarious at all unless you're me.
Then within minutes he's fingering Draco's wand and being told by Ollivander that it basically belongs to him now, and my old H/D shipper heart kind of did somersaults. I did think the movie needed more Draco, but the Draco moments it had were all superb so I'm not really complaining. He and Harry had a pretty epic eyefucking session in the Room of Requirement when Harry asked him about why he didn't rat them out when they'd been captured at Malfoy Manor, and then there was the whole thing with Harry being unable to leave Draco to DIAF and Draco reaching out to Harry 'cause he knew Harry would save him and Harry saving him and the two of them RIDING A BROOMSTICK TOGETHER. I mean, that part of the book I do remember so it was no surprise there, but seeing Harry and Draco on a broomstick together on a giant screen in 3D was pretty much the highlight of the movie for me. XD But didn't Draco try to save Goyle from the fire at one point? I seem to recall that, but it didn't happen in the movie. Oh well. BROOMSTICK. HE WAS PRACTICALLY ON TOP OF HARRY. There are going to be so many icons of this.
Anyway, I'd told myself I wouldn't get all ridiculous and emotional about this being the last movie since I haven't even been in HP fandom the past few years, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't get fucking misty-eyed like every ten freaking minutes. EVERYTHING got to me. McGonagall leading all the Hogwarts professors in their valiant defense of Hogwarts, the castle getting destroyed, Fred and Remus dying, Neville's speech after everyone thought Harry was dead, Narcissa and Draco holding hands and walking calmly away from the fighting in the end with Lucius making a conscious decision to run after them, Snape dying--
Oh my god, Snape. Alan Rickman is the most amazing thing to ever happen to these movies. SO MANY awesome Snape moments, from the first shot of him standing in the castle to threatening all the students in the school against helping Harry to all the scenes in his memories which I never wanted to end and could've watched for hours (young!Snape was pretty adorable btw) to his death scene. The Snarry shippers will love that scene, I think; Harry does hold his jaw/cheek quite tenderly as he's bleeding out, and Snape crying out his memories is kind of priceless. XD His last "look at me" 'cause he wanted to see Lily's eyes one last time broke my heart, though.
Other favorite moments:
- Hermione polyjuicing into Bellatrix and saying "Good morning" to some random Death Eater
- Ron and Hermione making out after Hermione destroys a horcrux, mainly because the whole theater cheered
- McGonagall animating the statues in defense of Hogwarts and being all giddy 'cause she'd always wanted to use that spell
- Some Slytherin saying "grab him!" in response to Voldemort's "give me Harry Potter or die" ultimatum and Ginny grabbing his arm (I know, look how I've matured, I no longer hate Harry/Ginny and didn't even get upset when they kissed like the butthurt H/D shipper I used to be.)
- Aberforth being a huge badass, so reminiscent of Albus Dumbledore!
- Narcissa desperately asking Harry if Draco was still alive ♥ (Although is half of her hair really supposed to be black?)
- Snape and McGonagall's duel
- Voldemort randomly killing Death Eaters, IDK it amuses me
- All of Snape's memories, but mostly the one where Snape is outraged that Dumbledore has kept Harry alive all this time only to sacrifice him at the right moment and Dumbledore asking if Snape actually cares about Harry and Snape SENDING OUT A LILY-DOE-SHAPED PATRONUS </3
- After Harry half-dies he says his dreamworld looks "like King's Cross station, but cleaner"
- Bits of 3D Voldemort floating toward you in the end as he dies, lolol
- THE EPILOGUE. I cringed when it said "19 years later" 'cause I am very much an EWE girl, but oh my god the epilogue was hilarious. They used all the same actors/actresses but tried to make them look old and it really was hilariously awful, which was perhaps the point? I didn't notice whether Draco had a receding hairline, but Harry was a bit more bearded and Ron had a big beer belly and everyone in the theater lol'd as each of them was introduced. Albus Severus Potter was adorable and looked quite like Dan Radcliffe in the first movie. Ron and Hermione's son also looked like Rupert when he was younger. IT WAS ALL SO CUTE AND LULZ-INDUCING.
FKLSKDJLFSK this movie is just awesome all around, totally made up for the fact that I apparently just missed Tom Felton walking down the red carpet when I was trying to sneak around the premiere the other night. :P
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:19 am (UTC)Yes, Draco did try to save Goyle (it was a redeeming moment in the books) and no, Narcissa is supposed to be pure blonde like her son and husband.
But yay, I am so excited now!!! Marathoning Potter as we speak!
PS ILU. AND I LOVE SEEING YOUR POSTS. DON'T BE A STRANGER, OK?!
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Date: 2011-07-09 08:28 am (UTC)ILIU2. SORRY I HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND, TRAVELING AND ALL.
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Date: 2011-07-09 05:36 am (UTC)*puppy eyes*
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Date: 2011-07-09 08:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-09 06:50 am (UTC)yes, i am reading your movie spoilers five days prior to seeing the movie myself because, hell wtf we all know what happens already anyway. :p ANYWAY, so excited to see this omg! Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape! and Ron/Hermione (so, so, so glad to hear about the whole theatre cheering there--bbs deserve all the love, my favourite canon pairing forever ♥)! and, lol no, Narcissa isn't supposed to look like a bagder idek what that's supposed to be about. o_O;;
i'm not a EWE girl but i am not looking forward to seeing them all uglified and shit--LOL WHO AM I KIDDING. A BEER BELLY? EXCUSE ME WHILE I SWOON IN DELIGHTED LAUGHTER. XD also also also Scorpius is totally Harry and Draco's lovechild:
voila.
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Date: 2011-07-09 08:39 am (UTC)Everyone was so awesomely cast except for Narcissa, that casting choice really threw me. I didn't even know who she was supposed to be until she asked Harry if Draco was alive.
I didn't even really look at Scorpius since I was too busy looking at Draco for the three seconds he was on the screen, but omg he does look like Harry and Draco's lovechild, lolol BEST CASTING DECISION EVER.
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Date: 2011-07-10 04:01 am (UTC)i really don't understand what that hair was about, and she looked a little too old for Narcissa imo. then again, so are Harry's supposedly-dead-at-age-21!parents, so.
god, i love that boy so much already. oh, David Yates~ you closet shipper, you. (and part of me just aches to know what Tom Felton had to do with this decision. XD)
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Date: 2011-07-11 08:46 pm (UTC)I'm still upset if they didn't have Draco save Blaise OR Goyle. D:
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Date: 2011-07-12 09:22 am (UTC)it still really is a shame because that was one moment where we got to see that draco's friends weren't just "goons" to him as they appear to be. he really did care about them. </3
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Date: 2011-07-09 08:25 am (UTC)*dies*
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Date: 2011-07-09 08:38 pm (UTC)Excite.
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Date: 2011-07-13 06:54 pm (UTC)How long are you staying in Switzerland? I'm getting to Geneva on Sunday - going for work though.
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Date: 2011-07-13 07:29 pm (UTC)Awww, I'm going to Geneva tomorrow and leaving on Friday. :( :( :(
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Date: 2011-07-16 10:42 am (UTC)But other than that, having seen the film yesterday: I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it? Like, I was expecting to cry ALL THE TEARS but it was mostly Fred and Remus and the scene with all the ghost people that got me.
(My screen laughed most of the way through the epilogue (the folk in front of me clearly weren't EWE people because they got dead excited when 19 years later came up) but loudest at Draco because he looked ridiculous. They also laughed when Harry said 'Albus Severus Potter' because that will never not be a ridiculous name.)
I said to the fannish friend I saw it with that it was a film for pretty much all the Harry ships - I think he had moments with everyone by the end of it.
In conclusion, though, the main thing I wanted from this movie was Neville being a badass. There was plenty of Neville being a badass. So I was happy.
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Date: 2011-07-21 01:10 am (UTC)Wasn't the epilogue amazing though? The more ridiculous they look, the more I love it.
And Harry always was the fandom bicycle, so I guess that was fitting!
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Date: 2011-07-21 02:04 am (UTC)The epilogue was pretty hilarious, but oh my god, the music killed me. Just right back to the first one, and as;ldkjf *wibbles*
Whenever I think about this series I just think about all the people I met, I have to admit. ♥
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Date: 2011-08-20 11:59 am (UTC)